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ANDREW YOUNG (1885 - 1971)

Priest, naturalist and topographer, Young was born at Elgin in Scotland. He spent the years 1912-14 at the Wallace Green church in Berwick. He began his long poetic career in 1910 with Songs of Night and his first Collected Poems appeared in 1936. His lifelong interest in botany is reflected in many lyrics, and 'In Teesdale' was no doubt inspired by his time spent studying the flora of the area. It begins:

No, not tonight,
Not by this fading light,
Not by those high fells where the forces
Fall from the mist like the white tails of horses.
From that dark slack
Where peat-hags gape too black
I turn to where the lighted farm
Holds out through the open door a golden arm.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
ANDREW YOUNG (1885 - 1971) Priest, naturalist and topographer, Young was born at Elgin in Scotland. He spent the years 1912-14 at the Wallace Green church in Berwick. He began his long poetic career in 1910 with Songs of Night and his first Collected Poems appeared in 1936. His lifelong interest in botany is reflected in many lyrics, and 'In Teesdale' was no doubt inspired by his time spent studying the flora of the area. It begins: No, not tonight, Not by this fading light, Not by those high fells where the forces Fall from the mist like the white tails of horses. From that dark slack Where peat-hags gape too black I turn to where the lighted farm Holds out through the open door a golden arm.
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